Hilmar Zonneveld, Independent Consultant
Hilmar Zonneveld works in programming since 1986, using dBASE, FoxPro and Visual FoxPro. He is available as an independent consultant. He currently works as a programmer at Bata Shoe Organization; also as an instructor at Cisco Networking Academy. You can contact him through the Universal Thread, or, via e-mail, at hilmarz@yahoo.com. Personal Web page (mainly in Spanish): www.geocities.com/hilmarz.

Converts an integer, in the range 1-3999, to a roman numeral. Sometimes the use of roman numerals may be desired in some reports.

Class for handling arrays. Arrays are not limited to 2 dimensions, or to 65,000 elements. Some additional benefits, for instance, only initialized elements actually use up space. 2003-06-17: Fixed a bug that appeared when saving a value for a second time (MJ). 2002-11-10: Numerous improvements b...

Do calculations with any desired precision. The class "math unlimited" supports addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and several more. See Description for details. It can handle almost any desired precision; the only real limitation is the size of a VFP array. Also, there may be pract...

You can use this file to automate your backup tasks. Requires separate compression program. The backup program illustrates the following programming techniques: 1) Load variables from a text-file, INI style. 2) Recursive processing of folders (used here to delete files recursively, in temporary fold...

A frequent requirement for reports is to print in text-mode, for fast printing. This can be done with report ... ASCII, but since I found that there were some problems, I preferred to create text files with "?" and "??" (many programmers prefer "@...say" instead), and send printer codes + the...